Comm Aids and Strat using tools of technology

Question 1

• useful in the business context, most especially in advertising purposes
• offers instructional information, share family adventures communicate anything that they need to pass to others.

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Blogs

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It has enabled people to remain connected with each other from any location. Besides receiving voice calls and placing of the same, cell phones allow
users a chance to send and receive text messages from the communicating parties.

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Cellphone

Question 2

• In the business sphere, it is utilized to communicate ideas with clients and employees.
• used by learning institutions to communicate to parents and students on issues of interest to the parties.
• it gives you the ability to get prompt and immediate feedback among communicating parties.

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Email

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• sites as facebook and twitter allow individuals to communicate with total strangers, family, colleagues and friends in a forum that is online.
• grant people a chance to reconnect with their lost friends and relatives, and lots of businesses currently exploit social networks to drum up their business.

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Social Networking

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• allow people to contribute to a topic of interest to strangers; thus providing a learning opportunity and exchange of ideas. People can also exchange other personal details with people they meet and chat with in the online chats.
• used to communicate with their peers in real time.

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Online Chat

Question 5

It has revolutionized communication; as individuals can see each other in actual time while communicating in a computer screen.

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Video Calls

Question 5

What are the methods of communicating via Technology? (6)

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Cellphone
Blogs
Email
Social Networking
Online Chat
Video Calls

Question 6

INFLUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY ON COMMUNICATION (5)

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Speed and Cost
Quality
Accessibility
Nature of Communication
Change in Style

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is when you exploit certain threads in the materials you have gathered from various sources and stitch these together to create your own “patchwork” and your own particular understanding of the materials

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PATCHWORKING

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is the act of stealing and passing off as your own ideas, words or any other intellectual property produced by another person.

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PLAGIARISM

Question 9

a process that extracts text, signs or meaning from its original context (decontextualisation) and reuses it in another context

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RECONTEXTUALIZATION

Question 10

• where the story is narrated using “multiple delivery
  channels” by means of a combination of media platforms.
• example is the novel of J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series

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Transmedia

Question 11

a performance or an event

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Live

Question 12

slide presentations, e-books, blogs, social media to
animation, films and video games

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Digital

Question 13

such as books, comics and posters

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Paper